DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Sc. (Software Engineering) Years Integrated) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2017.
OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Open
Source Soft wares?
2. How do you grant privileges for assigning permissions to
files and folders in Linux?
3. How do you set up email server? Explain.
4. What are the utilities available in Linux to manage day
by day tasks?
5. How to set up a firewall for an enterprise?
6. What is the use of autoconf and autogen? Discuss.
7. Give a brief note on X windows server architecture.
8. How do you generate statically linked libraries? Discuss.
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Explain the different modes of connecting internet.
10. How do you configure disk partitions and file system in
Linux? Explain.
11. Explain the process of setting up proxy services and
printers services.
12. Explain the configuration and utilities in X window
system.
13. What is source code versioning? How do you handle
source code versioning?
14. Briefly discuss on graphical debuggers and memory
debugging.
15. Discuss the features of python programming.